History Quote by Danzy Senna

“Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.”

— Brian Aldiss

“People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past…

— Aporva Kala

“Deep in his heart, man aspires to rejoin the condition he had before consciousness. History is merely the detour he takes to get there.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“Personal and world history is an accumulation of todays, and how they were spent.”

— Andrew M. Davis

“History is biology's dumping ground”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Every people has a past, but the dignity of a history comes when a community of scholars devotes itself to chronicling and studying that…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“My father, whom I implicitly believed, represented adult life as one of incessant drudgery under the continual threat of financial ruin.”

— C.S. Lewis

“The world of our fathers resides within us. Ten thousand generations and more. A form without a history has no power to perpetuate itself.…

— Cormac McCarthy

“He was the measure of the failure of his father's body, and also perhaps a portending of the failure of his own.~”

— Marilynne Robinson

“conversation a man had with his father—only not about the planned and carried out destruction of the entire world.”

— Hugh Howey

“For some, history is a drab and dusty subject; for me it is a powerful stimulant, arousing our passions about past injustices and infusing…

— Anonymous

“Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.”

— Leo Tolstoy